Stickmaker Museum Lindewerra
The stick-maker museum is a museum in the village of Lindewerra in the Eichsfeld district in northwest Thuringia, right on the border with the Hessian Werra-Meißner district .
Stick making in Lindewerra
The stickmaker Wilhelm Ludwig Wagner from Eddigehausen near Göttingen brought the stickmaker's trade to Lindewerra in 1836.
On the Höheberg there was a cut forest owned by the community with many oak trees, the saplings of which were regularly cut down and peeled for the tannery . The debarked saplings could thus be procured cheaply and in large numbers for the manufacture of sticks. In 1860 there were six professional stick makers in Lindewerra and by 1915 there were already 15 family businesses. Up to 500,000 sticks were produced in the 1920s. Almost every family in the village was directly or indirectly involved in the manufacture of sticks. In the GDR , the stick makers were merged in 1951 in the purchasing and delivery cooperative of the handicrafts in the district of Heiligenstadt . After 1990 the stick production was continued as Lindewerra stick manufactory.
Today there are only a few stick makers left in Lindewerra and some neighboring towns in the Werra Valley .
museum
The museum was opened in 1980 in a former stick maker's workshop. It shows all equipment and facilities from the warehouse to the workshop to the bakery as well as documents and pictures relating to stick making. Around 32 work steps are required from the blank to the finished stick .
A wide variety of stick types are shown in an exhibition: hiking , walking , hunting and hospital sticks , but also rare products such as a market roller .
Members of the Lindewerra Heimatverein look after the museum.
literature
- Josef Keppler: 175 years of stickmaking in Lindewerra. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. 55 vol. (2011), issue 7/8, pages 241-244
Web links
- Stickmaker Museum on the Lindewerra side
- Company portrait of the stick maker workshop Geyer in Lindewerra
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Keppler: Hanstein, Ludwigstein, Teufelskanzel and the Eichsfeldische Werra valley. Mecke Verlag Duderstadt 2008, page 40
- ↑ Stickmaker keeps rare craft alive in: Holz-Zentralblatt dated August 1, 2014, page 753
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 44.6 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 47.1" E